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‘NINETY-FOUR THOUSAND, BIGGEST CROWD EVER IN THIS COUNTRY, IN EUROPE. THEY LOVE ME AND I LOVE THEM’
WEMBLEY
APRIL 23
★★★☆☆ MAIN EVENT
★★★★★ ATMOSPHERE
IF THE thrashing of an overmatched Dillian Whyte is to be Tyson Fury’s swansong, it was triumphantly in-tune yet all too brief. After the sixth-round knockout the world heavyweight champion insisted that, no, he will not fight again. At a buoyant Wembley Stadium, however, it was hard to shake the feeling that the “Gypsy King” should only just be getting started.
His newfound status as a national treasure took a long time to cultivate. A mixture of bad press, ill-judged outbursts about his personal beliefs and, later, news of a failed drug test somewhat tainted – fairly or not – his 2015 victory over Wladimir Klitschko. Subsequent obesity and depression made gaining supremacy over the once fearsome Deontay Wilder all the more impressive, but, for fans in Blighty, all three Fury-Wilder fights took place at an ungodly hour in the middle of the night. Not only that, Fury was starved of the travelling support he would undoubtedly have attracted were it not for
